Scotland keeper Marshall has been with Norwich, Cardiff and Hull since leaving Celtic

“I didn’t have that experience, but I came on for 45 minutes at half-time and it was the best day of my life. For hours afterwards I just sat there in a daze.

“I made some good saves against some top players. You look at Chelsea now, and all of their big players were there when I faced them.

“Diego Costa played up front, and my first touch of the ball was to smash him! There’s a good picture of that moment. It was pretty surreal playing against all those great players I’d idolised and watched on TV every week. But I coped with it well.

“That sort of experience is going to help me up here because Rangers have a great following and get big crowds.

“Growing up in Newcastle, it was a dream come true to play in a north-east derby.

“I’d played in a couple of matches before it, but there was a different atmosphere in that game, a totally different feel around it.

“It was a magical day for me and my family, even though we lost 1-0 when Sunderland scored in the last minute. As a Newcastle fan, that hurt. But not many 21-year-olds can say they have had that experience.

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